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Friday, February 17, 2017

Democratic Treachery

By Paul R.
Hollrah

"Nothing can now be believed
which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into
that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known
only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge
with the lies of the day." — Thomas Jefferson (1807)

“Good news: In two years, we’ll have a
new president.Bad news: If we make it
that long.” — Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, February 13, 2017

“Ladies and gentlemen, we were attacked on Dec. 7,
1941, we were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, and we were attacked on Nov. 8, 2016.
That most recent attack didn't involve a
horrible loss of lives, but it was devastating in its own way. Our entire intelligence community concluded
that Russia hacked our election by deliberately breaking into Democratic
National Committee computers and then, drip-by-drip, funneling embarrassing
emails through WikiLeaks to undermine Clinton’s campaign…”

—
Thomas Friedman, New York Times, February 14, 2017

It seems
clear that, to the extent they are still hanging around the White House,
engaged in presidential transition duties, former Obama administration staffers
are doing whatever they can to damage the Trump presidency.They may also be aided by a few “never Trump”
Republicans and their allies in the “hanger-on” class. Whatever the truth of the matter, Washington appears
to be all but immobilized with “Trump derangement” and “Russian dirty tricks
derangement.”

Thus, after
publishing a column under the title, “Democratic
Deceit,” it seems only reasonable to follow it up with a column exposing
Democratic treachery.Democrats are so
deranged over the question of Russian interference in our U.S. elections that
some have even suggested that we are experiencing a full-scale assault on our
democratic institutions.There may be
some truth in that assessment, but, if so, how did it happen? When did it start and who started it?

Russian
attempts at influencing the outcome of U.S. elections are nothing new, although
they rarely, if ever, attempted to help Republicans.During the Cold War era the Soviet Union carried
on an intensive program to influence American public opinion, and hence, the
outcome of elections.Their methodology
is fully outlined by two veteran journalists, Robert Moss, former editor of Foreign Report, and Arnaud de
Borchgrave, former chief foreign correspondent for Newsweek magazine,in
their fact-based novel, The Spike (New
York: Crown Publishers, 1980).

However, it
was not until the declassification of Soviet era KGB archives during the early
to mid-‘90s that the full extent of Democratic treachery was exposed.For example, one archived 1980 KGB document
stated that Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) offered to condemn President Jimmy Carter’s
policy toward the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in exchange for KGB help in
his campaign to unseat Carter. News
accounts of that period prove that Kennedy did, in fact, criticize Carter’s
Afghanistan policy.

Even more surprising, Carter
himself was willing to jump into bed with the Soviets. KGB files show that, in the closing days of
the 1980 General Election, while Carter trailed Reagan in the national polls, Carter
sent a political ally, industrialist Armand Hammer, to a secret meeting with
Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin at the Soviet embassy in Washington. Hammer asked the Soviets to help Carter win
votes in key states by allowing Jewish “refuseniks” to emigrate to Israel. The Soviets refused to go along with the
scheme.KGB files show that, in
January 1984, Carter approached Dobrynin in person. In an effort to derail Ronald Reagan’s defense
buildup, Carter asked for Soviet help in defeating Reagan in his bid for
reelection.It is not known whether the
Soviets gave him what he wanted.

But Carter, Kennedy, and
Hammer weren’t the only Democrat who sought Soviet political help.Declassified KGB files show that, in 1984, House
Speaker “Tip” O’Neill (D-MA) privately told Dobrynin that it was in “everyone’s
best interests” if the Soviets would help Democrats keep “that demagogue Reagan”
from being re-elected. O’Neill warned
Dobrynin that the “primitive instincts” of this “dangerous man” would plunge
the world into war.It must have amazed Dobrynin
that those prominent liberals - Ted Kennedy, Armand Hammer, Jimmy Carter, and
Tip O’Neill – all viewed Reagan as more dangerous than any Communist dictator.Historian Paul Kengor
observed that the Soviet archives showed “the lengths to which some on the
political left… were willing to go to stop Ronald Reagan.”In his book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, Professor
Kengor quotes the text of a May 14, 1983 memorandum uncovered in the
declassified Soviet archives by Herbert Romerstein, a well-known authority on
the Venona Papers and the Soviet
archives.

According to
the memorandum, written by Viktor Chebrikov, Chairman of the Committee on State
Security of the USSR (KGB), to Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR, he (Chebrikov) was visited by
former U.S. Senator John Tunney (D-CA) on May 9-10, 1983.Tunney, a private citizen, was on a highly
sensitive mission for his former University of Virginia law school roommate, a
close friend and former senate colleague, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA).The purpose of his mission was to enlist the
Kremlin in a grand scheme to defeat Ronald Reagan and other Republicans in the
1984 U.S. elections.

In his
memorandum, Chebrikov quoted Tunney as saying that Kennedy was convinced that
the chilly relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union were due to Reagan’s
unwillingness to modify his strategic plan to win a final Cold War victory over
the Soviet Union.As Tunney described
Kennedy’s frustration with the state of American politics, Reagan was able to
rely on the results of his highly successful “Reaganomics” policies – reduced
inflation, reduced taxes, increased productivity, a healthy business climate,
and declining interest rates – to support his political standing with the
American people, making it difficult for Democrats to attack him on foreign
policy issues.

As Tunney
described Kennedy’s view to the Soviet spymaster, the only possible threat to
Reagan was rooted in issues related to war and peace and Soviet-American
relations.With the active participation
of the Soviets, those issues could become the most critical of Reagan’s 1984
reelection campaign.As Chebrikov wrote
to Andropov, “Kennedy believes that, given the current state of affairs… it
would be prudent and timely to undertake the following steps” to counter
Reagan’s policies:

Kennedy asked Andropov to
consider inviting him (Kennedy) to Moscow for a personal meeting in July
1983.The primary purpose of the
meeting would be to provide Soviet officials with “talking points” related
to problems of nuclear disarmament so that they’d be “better prepared and
more convincing during appearances in the USA.”

Kennedy felt that, in order to
influence the American people, it would be helpful to have
Chairman Andropov submit to a series of television interviews with American TV
networks.He felt that a direct appeal
by the General Secretary of the Communist Party to the American people would,
without doubt, “attract a great deal of attention and interest in the country.”

Tunney
assured Chebrikov that, “if the proposal is recognized as worthy,” Kennedy and
his political allies would take the necessary steps to have representatives of
the major U.S. networks contact Andropov to schedule interviews.Specifically, he suggested that the head of
ABC, Elton Raul, and “television columnists Walter Cronkite or Barbara Walters
could visit Moscow.”

Kennedy also
suggested a series of televised interviews, in the U.S., in which members of
the Soviet military could convince the American people of the “peaceful
intentions of the USSR.”

Chebrikov
prepared a memorandum and sent it to Chairman Andropov, and the memorandum
found its way into the KGB archives.It
is not known if additional negotiations took place between Kennedy and the
Soviets, but one thing is certain:Kennedy did not expect that Reagan would ultimately win the Cold War, that the Soviet empire would disintegrate, or
that Americans would one day find themselves reading of his treachery in
documents taken from the archives of the KGB.

If Kennedy
was unsure of a Democratic victory in 1984, with all the forces of the labor
unions, teachers unions, public employee unions, trial lawyers, radical
environmentalist, plantation blacks, pro-abortion activists, gays, lesbians,
and transvestites at their disposal, how better to insure a Democratic victory
than by enlisting the aid of the KGB and the Soviet leadership?That was Kennedy’s principal motivation, and
what a cheap, un-American motivation it was.

If a
Republican member of the U.S. Senate, or a senior aide to a Republican
president, had engaged in the same kind of treachery, he or she would still be
staring out from behind the bars of a federal prison.Even a retired three-star general, slated for
a top post in the White House national security staff, would be forced to
resign in disgrace if he engaged in unofficial talks with a senior Russian
official… no matter how innocent or insignificant the subject matter of the
conversations.One also wonders how
Democrats view the role played by the notorious Sidney Blumenthal who, as a
private citizen, gathered bits and pieces of information from across the Middle
East and forwarded it, along with policy recommendations, to former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton in frequent email exchanges.

If Donald and
Melania Trump are now finding Russians hiding under every bed in the White
House, it’s because the Democrats invited them in and never got around to
showing them the door.

Paul R. Hollrah is a retired
government relations executive and a two-time member of the U.S. Electoral
College.He currently lives and writes
among the hills and lakes of northeast Oklahoma’s Green Country.

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Lieutenant Colonel Frances Rice, United States Army, Retired is a native of Atlanta, Georgia and retired from the Army in 1984 after 20 years of active service. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Drury College in 1973, a Masters of Business Administration from Golden Gate University in 1976, and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1977.
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